Sorry Ade, this won't necessarily work and frankly isn't worth $5,000. ;) While it will work for outgoing traffic, it definitely won't work for incoming traffic that uses DNS. nslookup www.premierlink.com 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8 If these two ips are on different lines and in the DNS entry, either can be used by a client, and both need to be up (ie load balancing). Without something like bgp, only one ip will work. (all traffic will go out one ip, even if it originated on the other). If you only put one ip in the dns entry, then you can't change to the other ip without suffering from propogation delay. By the way, network stop && network start isn't necessary. You can just change the route: route del default route add default gw $newIP Cory -----Original Message----- From: Ade Talabi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EUG-LUG:2277] Re: iptables - network layout, etc Cory Petkovsek, Write a script to poll the up/downability of the providers... then switch providers (change the etho-config etc...) and do a soft reboot. ie /etc/inet.d/network stop ie /etc/inet.d/network start Really I should charge about $10K to fully implement this, but take that this advice is worth $5,000. Cory Petkovsek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [16/08/01 at 01:49]: > I should also clarify, if they are from two different providers, there is no > way known by me!, to do this. -- "I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know." (James Brown)
